Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Owner Warren Wright, and ranking with Man o' War. For most of last year, when he should have been at his racing prime, four-year-old Citation did nothing much but munch his daily quota of oats and hay. He went back to work last fall and by January, at Santa Anita, Trainer Jimmy Jones had him ready again. He won an easy one, then finished second in five successive handicaps in which he carried top weight. Though each of the defeats was a near miss, many horsemen thought that Big Cy had lost some...
...1850s, Dallas won fame as a lively center of the buffalo-hide trade. But last week, the city played host to 5,000 department-store and specialty-shop buyers who were too busy to bother with Dallas' frontier past. They came to see the up-to the-minute fall styles of the city's bustling fashion industry, eighth largest...
...hundredweight. Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan warned Congress that unless it gave the Commodity Credit Corp. an extra $2 billion for the overall price-propping program, he could not support the pork market. When Congress did nothing, Brannan's economists gloomily predicted that unsupported pork might fall as low as $10 a hundredweight...
According to Langmuir's theory, silver iodide particles in the right amount will turn a cloud of supercooled (below freezing) water droplets into snowflakes. The flakes sink to warm lower levels, melt and fall as rain. But if there are too many iodide particles competing for the moisture in the water droplets, the snowflakes formed are too small to fall. They may even rise, drifting off as thin cirrus clouds that never yield any rain...
After voting to expand its membership, the Crimson Key recently announced that it will be able to take on some Student Council service functions next fall. The Council Forum will definitely operate under the Key next year and Key members expect to take over other Council activities, perhaps all in the future...